Founded in July 2007, Instant Serials is a digital platform for gathering together, remotely, to share a story as it unfolds over time in successive episodes. This narrative format is called serialization. Instant Serials streams serialized literature so there is always something good to read together—even when you are apart.
Instant Serials technology makes it easy and safe to host a serial story gathering of any size. Guests (family, students, friends, colleagues), together, read and chat about episodes, as the story progresses over time. It's a serial event. It is a continuing social activity.
The company develops technology that facilitates sharing with its serial format, streaming delivery, and the serialization of group connections and discussions.
Instant Serials’ stories are written and illustrated for a general audience. Created by Breakfast Serials Inc, the stories have engaged tens of millions of readers in 736 newspapers worldwide, making these serialized stories popular literature.
The Mission
The mission of Instant Serials is to transform reading, so often a solitary pleasure, into a social activity. By gathering together, remotely, to share a story as it unfolds over time in successive episodes, many lively conversations will result. Community is developed and strengthened.
Team
All members of the Instant Serials team are highly experienced in their respective fields, and these fields are critical to the company’s technology driven strategies. Instant Serials core operations are intentionally maintained by a small staff; other functions are outsourced to mobilize complementary capabilities and ensure flexibility.
Linda Wright is the CEO of Instant Serials Inc, which she founded in 2007. Linda guides the direction and product strategy of the company and its affiliate Breakfast Serials, Inc. She is responsible for the design and technology development of Instant Serials’ service. Linda is also the inventor of a method and apparatus for categorizing exemplar structures to access information regarding a collection of objects. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Linda a patent in 2007.
Eric Fritz is in charge of developing and maintaining Breakfast Serials' and Instant Serials' corporate websites and database systems. He has over 23 years of experience designing and developing database-driven websites, intranets, and extranets using a wide variety of technical expertise.
The CNT Group is responsible for the coordination and maintenance of instant Serials’ IT needs. CNT’s team delivers high-level enterprise support and strategic technology planning.
SiteLock manages Instant Serials’ security with SecureVIP software. Designed for businesses who experience significant spikes in visitor traffic, offer content streaming or downloads directly from their site, or need to meet PCI DSS requirements, SecureVIP delivers the highest level of website protection available and protects against malicious distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Jeff Schaich creates the brand look and feel for Instant Serials products and services. Jeff draws from his 30 years of design and art direction experience in both large advertising agencies and small boutique design firms here in Colorado and the Washington D.C. area. His work has been recognized in award shows and magazines such as The One Show New York, AIGA, Richmond Art Directors Club, and Creativity, Print and HOW magazines. He now runs his own Design studio in Boulder Colorado.
Adam Cohen has served as counsel to Instant Serials and Breakfast Serials since 2001. In this capacity, he is responsible for publishing and intellectual property matters of the corporations. Adam is a partner in the legal firm of Kane Kessler, P.C., located in New York, NY. He chairs the firm's Intellectual Property practice group and is an active member of the City of New York Bar and the International Trademark Association.